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We don't have a comprehensive thread here on the various figures issued by Diener Industries over the years!

Among the figures issued by Diener were Space Creatures including robots and spaceships, Monsters and Dinosaurs. Each figure was issued in multiple colours such as orange, yellow, green, blue and brown.

They were issued singly as toys with McDonalds Happy Meals beginning in the late seventies or as carded rack toys:

Diener reused the molds and repopped the figures as soft rubbery ones, hard plastic or even pencil erasers - in other words as whatever they thought they could flog that particular year.

So tell us what you know about the various Diener sets and figures and about your real life experiences with these things! And show us pics of what you have (ideally with a good explanation)!

Though the Diener rubbery figures were marketed as erasers I'll bet not many were used for that. Why mess up a cool figure when you could just use a plain eraser? Most kids probably agreed with that which is why there are still so many of these in the marketplace.

So you're saying that the soft and rubbery category is the same as the eraser category?

To my understanding, yes.

I only have a set of the Space Creatures (Monsters), and the dinos (small & large), and I'm by no means a Diener expert. But, the rubbery ones were intended as erasers according to the packaging in the photos posted above.

So you're saying that the soft and rubbery category is the same as the eraser category?

To my understanding, yes.

I only have a set of the Space Creatures (Monsters), and the dinos (small & large), and I'm by no means a Diener expert. But, the rubbery ones were intended as erasers according to the packaging in the photos posted above.

Evidently the light purple colour is found only among the erasers. A light purple figure would therefore enable one to differentiate between the soft plastic Happy Meal figures and the ones subsequently issued on cards as erasers.